Contributions totaling $30,400 from five Epstein companies were listed on King’s latest campaign finance report released Monday. All of the companies listed the same U.S. Virgin Islands address that is posted on Epstein’s New York state sex offender registry. In an earlier campaign finance report, King disclosed an additional $5,200 from another Epstein-related company with the same Virgin Islands address.

In addition to his El Brillo Way mansion, Epstein owns a 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a 7,500-acre ranch in New Mexico and a 51,000-square-foot eight-story mansion on New York’s Upper East Side.

King released the following statement Tuesday: "My campaign has had an ongoing rule that I would not accept any contributions directly from Mr. Epstein and upon further review, we have learned that he has an interest in the companies in question. Unfortunately my fundraising staff missed this in the vetting process. I believe the right thing to do is to return the contributions from all companies in which Mr. Epstein has an interest. This will be done immediately."

Epstein, 61, has settled more than two dozen lawsuits and claims by young women who say they were lured to his Palm Beach mansion as teens to give him sexually charged massages and/or sex in exchange for money. The terms of all settlements are confidential.

In June 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution and soliciting prostitution after a Palm Beach police investigation revealed that he paid underage girls for sexually charged massages at his El Brillo Way home. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence at the Palm Beach County Stockade and received liberal work-release privileges while in jail.

King, the state’s attorney general, returned a $15,000 donation from Epstein during his 2006 run for that office — the same year a Palm Beach County grand jury indicted Epstein.